The most helpful favourable review

The most helpful critical review

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 starsWorks well
Easily enough net to cover the door with a good overlap. Enclosed double sided tape Velcro to hold net to door frame works well. Suggest you do the overlap so that any prevailing wind (from South West?) tends to blow the outside flap closed rather than open. Think white looks good as well. Order arrived promptly.

Published on 21 April 2011 by M. Smith

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 starsvery disappointed with this item
Initially, this seemed fine. I wiped the door frame over and fitted the adhesive strip. I then pressed the two panels to the strip - job done.........................or so I thought. Within a few minutes, the entire thing had dropped off onto the floor. when I retrieved it, it had all stuck to itself and the net panels - what a mess. I disentangled everything and...

Easily enough net to cover the door with a good overlap. Enclosed double sided tape Velcro to hold net to door frame works well. Suggest you do the overlap so that any prevailing wind (from South West?) tends to blow the outside flap closed rather than open. Think white looks good as well. Order arrived promptly.

Initially, this seemed fine. I wiped the door frame over and fitted the adhesive strip. I then pressed the two panels to the strip - job done.........................or so I thought. Within a few minutes, the entire thing had dropped off onto the floor. when I retrieved it, it had all stuck to itself and the net panels - what a mess. I disentangled everything and re-applied the strips - and they dropped off again.......and again. By this time, I'd lost the will. The adhesive strips seemed to stick to everything except the doorframe and the net panels had become very snagged as a result of being tangled up and stuck-to! I left the thing for a couple of days and considered returning it, then I decided to use a staple-gun to keep the strips in place.

Thankfully, that ensured some permanence. It works well enough now but the net panels are very crudely cut, with uneven, crooked edges. I have tried to stick the strips to other surfaces but it always peels itself off very quickly. They do stick doggedly to fingers and to the net panels though, unfortunately!!

I guess you get what you pay for! The fly screen would be fine if there were some adequate means of securing it, but the velcro on sticky strips arrangement around the door frame is hopeless. Sticking it back to allow access in and out of the house works the first time, after that the sticky strip pulls away and the adhesive fails. Leaving it stuck in open curtain mode provided an environment that earwigs seemed to love, and they moved in and lined the folds of material. That said, we seem to have had fewer flies in the house since it went up but I can't see how this is due to the screen which is permanently open.

We had a screen once which hung from rigid fixings above the door with weights at the bottom of the panels, which opened and closed as you walked through. Sadly we can't find them anywhere this year. I won't be getting one like this again, needless to say.